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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Four year old tears

Four years minus a day ago, I sat at the back of a conference room and cried, as I read about the bomb in Oslo and the shootings at Utøya, as I had logged on to a changed reality. Those bullets hit close to the heart of every Norwegian.

The following is Frode Grytten's poem about that Friday, about pain and grief and being Norwegian, about love and hate and politics and hope and defiance. Today is a day of grief and pain, a day to cry. Then it's time to wake up to love, to the future, to the hope of a better world.

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About Me

This is the journal of Torill Elvira Mortensen. I am an associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. The topics of my writings here are among other things media studies, reader-response theory, role-play games, Internet Culture, travel, academic weirdness and online communication - put together at random.
Google scholar page.

Personal Publication and Public Attention, Torill Elvira Mortensen (2004): "Personal Publication and Public attention", in Gurak, Laura, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff and Jessica Reyman (ed): Into the Blogosphere; Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs, at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/, University of Minnesota.

Pleasures of the Player (pdf), Torill Elvira Mortensen (2003): Pleasures of the Player; Flow and control in online games, Doctoral Dissertation Volda College and University of Bergen.

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The Gamers' Space

The Gamers' Space is a small project I am doing in the spring 2009. It includes an electronic survey, pictures of game machines of different kinds, and interviews done at The Gathering, a large LAN party in Hamar, Norway. For participation, more information, links and addresses, check The Gamers' Space.